Category Archives: books

Book Reviews, particularly those available from the Ottawa Public library

Rails 3 in a Nutshell

Rails 3 in a Nutshell, by Cody Fauser, James MacAulay, Edward Ocampo-Gooding, and John Guenin, O’Reilly, 2013 For experienced web programmers interested in expert-level Ruby on Rails material, written by some of the lead programmers of Shopify. Read it online … Continue reading

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Well-grounded Java

The Well-grounded Java Developer – Vital Techniques of Java 7 and Polyglot Programming, Benjamin Evans, – 2013 Java programmers will want to read this book. Java 7 has NIO2, allowing input/output on multiple connections concurrently within a single process. The … Continue reading

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JavaScript Design Patterns

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, by Addy Osmani, O’Reilly, 2012 Web programmers will want to read this book, which is free online. Unfortunately, this book is not yet at the OPL.

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PHP Design Patterns

Learning PHP Design Patterns, William Sanders, O’Reilly 2013 Web programmers will want to read this book, in particular users of PHP. PHP’s success as a web app language comes largely from its freedom from structure: you can hack code together … Continue reading

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Epigenetics

The Epigenetics Revolution How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance, Nessa Carey, – 2012)

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NoSQL Distilled

NoSQL Distilled – A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence, Pramod Sadalage, – 2013 Programmers will like this book if they understand relational databases and are open to alternate database concepts. Non-SQL databases are useful when you … Continue reading

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Cypherpunks

Cypherpunks Freedom and the Future of the Internet By Assange, Julian (Book – 2012) Rant? This book by the leader of Wikileaks is unreadable polemic.

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Big Data

Big Data A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think By Mayer-Schonberger, Viktor/ Cukier, Kenneth (Book – 2013)

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Teams of Robots With Lego

Build Your Own Teams of Robots With Lego Mindstorms Nxt and Bluetooth Build Your Own Networked Robots, Cameron Hughes, – 2013 Programmers will like this book, which shows how to use Java libraries in place of the standard NXT toolset, … Continue reading

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Python for Data Analysis

Python for Data Analysis, Wes McKinney, O’Reilly, 2013

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